Apsychologist is investigating post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and perception modalities of coding distressing events. while considering the need to submit a proposal to the irb, he developed an informed consent statement that he thought was comprehensive and concise. the informed consent form included many sentences from his grant proposal, verbatim, and added a few more sentences that addressed expectations and requirements of participants. his goal was to accurately convey a description of the research. his opening paragraph read as follows: